Friday, April 5, 2013

Apps for education

I'm part of a Learning Community at UNCG called Technological Tools for Teaching, and the group sponsored an App Fair highlighting apps that others had found useful in an educational setting. So, I thought I'd share some of the more interesting, and potentially most useful, apps:

  • If your school is a subscriber, Browzine (pronounced "browsing," in the library sense) is a cool app that allows you to browse, read, and monitor academic journals. New issues are automatically displayed on your bookshelf, and they can be synced up with things like Zotero and Dropbox.
  • GoSoapbox is an instant polling app (kind of like the clickers some universities utilize) that students can access and use with their smart devices (they all have them, and use them in class, anyway, so why not for education?!). Use this access code to play around with it: 403-011-389. There is a 30-day free trial, and then a $10/year fee for instructors.
  • Feedly is a cool app that allows instructors to organize multimedia materials for teaching and students to designing assignments. It allows aggregation of web pages and other materials that are not easily captured via traditional programs (e.g., word processors, presentation software). Many have found this to be a good replacement for Google Reader.  

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